New Art Direction

I've been so inspired lately by imagry my friend Tracy had shown to me so I have been really sketching up a storm. Here are some of my newest illustrations. Going with the above theme I have decided to create a set. I will definitely be posting it here and on my Deviant art once completed. I'm so excited.

This is one I created of my Best Friend Tracy Maclauchlan. She drew a picture of Veil, from The Taffetas

It starts with an Idea and a sketch

I paint right over it in Photoshop

I then refine it, adding small details and fixing things I dont like

I cell shade it ... even though I LOVE the flats

Then its the background. It looks a little funky now ... but add some flowers...

And try not to box the image ... Viola finished XD

So I am going to go back and continue drawing, but I thought blogging might be a nice break.

This last one is a sketch of an upcomming illustration I am about to complete.

Something Beautiful

Here it is completed :D

Taffetas Poster

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This is a poster I created for the pitch The Taffetas, an online drama series. It is to be featured in today's Senior Soiree at the Savannah College of Art and Design campus. If the pose looks familiar, its because it is referencing Botticelli's, The Birth of Venus. Hopefully people find them as humorous as last quarter and we get a nice turn out.



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The image above does not do it justice. The original printed poster will be done in a 3 layer cut out format where Gemini pops out from the poster just ever so slightly, and Veil is jumping in from the left, blushing (though his blush doesn't show in this one), and trying to cover up his wife.



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The characters themselves were sketched out by Tracy MacLauchlan and then vectored by myself.

Just Working On Some of That Mind Katalyst

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As I have mentioned before in earlier post, I have been working under Mind Catalyst LLC (Now Mind Katalyst LLC) a learning company focused on compter programing and science education for children K-12. It has been a long ride but a wonderful one. This is the final logo in a mutitude of many roughs. (Below are just a few)

(You'll notice the amount of revision before reaching the final piece. Some are better than others, and the company went through a lot of restructuring as far as what kind of business it wanted to be as well as a name change after coming up with concepts and mock-ups)

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Business cards were relatively the same process. The final piece is above while mock-ups and early versions are below.

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In the end, we went with a very illustrative style that's simple and straight forward. Here are shots of the tabs I created for Mind Katalyst's Twitter site as well as the facebook fan page. Check it out, and like them.

Whoa

What a quarter. Though it is not over yet, I am finally glad to get through the worsts of it. But if you are wondering how everything went, I will have to admit though this was a very stressful experience it was very rewarding as well. For those that do follow me you probably already know that lately I have been balancing classes and a (nerve wracking) pitch to Nancy Spears, director of marketing of Warner Brothers (She's actually very nice). All in all however after spending approx. 2 weeks or more on the book, and trying to round up all the final work for people, the final result was beau-ti-ful, and something I was very proud of :)

Well happy to say it went very well.

Here is some behind the scenes work for the screen shot XD

Man...Tito can Draw

Just look at this. She drew it in five minutes or so. I don't exactly remember the number, but I know she said it was fast. But Tracy is just amazing. I told her I'd color two of them to prove it lol. And here's the end result. I really do like when she gives me these pretty works to color. They end up looking better than what I could ever have done on my own...and the best part it took me a third, maybe less, of the time to finish than my normal work.

Here's the original sketch by Tracy Maclauchlan : LINK

I just love being a Nerd

So here's the image finally finished. I'm pretty proud of myself. I think it's one of my better ones lately. With all this social drawing, I've noticed that I am gettering a bit better. LOL Really, I just love being able to nerd like this. On that note: lol Really, this is what Veil comes home to. It's a wonder why he ever comes back.

Below are my ever present WIP's. I get so excited about my drawing I end up bothering my friends about them before they are done. But atleast after I can show everyone my process. LOL That's something right!?

Momma's Little Helper

This is a picture of Gemini and Kyle(Dana's OC - He's adorable) together. She's trying to get him to use his psychic ability to get her something. We've decided since Gemini is a cat-lady for misfit kids that she would just automatically adopt this lil' boy, since she ha a habit of doing that. I wanted a 1950's feel since it's during a period where women were constricted into fitting into the perfect motherhood role. I thought it nicely ironic lol being as Gemini is happiest mothering someone, and in this point of the story she's being controlled by Malachi(a wonderfully beautiful and evil man) into doing whatever he wants while maintaining the appearance of a happy family. Perfectly 1950's...

Cat Fight

A lovely little fight between Gemini and Larkspur (An OC of Dana's) at a restaurant. This is the part where Gemini is winning lol, but Larkspur does get her good. Anyhow, I'm seriously debating whether to keep editing it or just leaving it alone. So I figure I'll leave it be for now... and fix it up later... when I have more time.



EDIT: Okay well here is it edited lol as you can see <.< I thought to fix a few things. New background, and tore up Larkspur's dress.


I figured Gemini's wardrobe would be a little more showy because she comes from wealth, So she has on pink pearls (rare and freaking expensive lol) and a pretty but other wise ornate dress that does her skin tone justice lol (Since Veil picked it out, he would have thought this over) I also put her in lace rather than jewels and made the cut of her dress less risque since I think while she'd be put in fashionable clothing.....it would still be something that makes her look soft and cute rather than sexy. Larkspur on the other hand is dressed in a plain cocktail dress. Classy, and elegant, but not extremely fancy since she's of moderate wealth. I made it orange since that's the color of her normal wardrobe, and black would have made her look like the villian LOL

Collab with Tito 2

Same thing as before...only now with Gemini lol. I think i might manipulate it so they are in one picture later tho XD Since it makes me laugh a little to think he's running from that train wreck that is her wardrobe

Collab with Tito

This is a drawing Tito had done while she was bored, and she let me color it :3 Hopefully I did her proud lol, I tried really hard. It's a lot more detailed then I normally go, but you know, I wanted to go further than I usually do since it's not my drawing. I adjusted it a bit, but for the most part the underlying structure is completely unchanged XD

Well If it isn't Christian

A Present of sorts for my baby cousin Christian. I gave him a quick look at how I do my new style, since he really wanted to know, and I used one of his pictures(below) to demonstrate. Here's the end result. I haven't shown him the final copy, so I'm hoping he likes it .... even if I did get a little lazy towards the end there. Sorry Buddy (^_^') Oh! and the faded words in the background say "Well, If It Isn't Christian," in case anyone was wondering.